ITV Sets Premiere Date For ‘The Bletchley Circle’ Season 2

The second season of ITV’s drama series The Bletchley Circle will premiere on Monday January 6th at 9pm, it has been announced.

Created by Guy Burt, The Bletchley Circle is set in the 1950′s and follows a group of women who worked as codebreakers at Bletchley Park during the second world war and, having now returned to civilian life, find themselves investigating murder cases which have the police stymied. The drama series is produced by World Productions and stars Anna Maxwell Martin, Rachael Stirling and Sophie Rundle. Joining the cast for season two is Hattie Morahan as Alice Merren. In the opening episode of season two, titled Blood On Their Hands, Jean gets the circle back together to clear the name of fellow Bletchley Park girl Alice Merren (Hettie Morahan) who is in prison awaiting trial on a charge of murder.